How to Grow Orchids Month ?

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How to Grow  Orchids Month ? How to grow orchids in different ways to grow plants in general. Orchids month, from the name alone is driving this interest is a beautiful ornamental flower types that require special way to plant and care for her. It is true, moon orchid is one of the plants that go into the kind of national flower of Indonesia. The orchid was first discovered by Dr. C. L. Blume. Orchid flower used as a symbol for love, beauty, and luxury. Besides as houseplants, orchids in the meridian of time used as natural healing techniques. Live orchid plants by sticking to the branches of other trees. Usually found in the forests or grown at 600 meters above sea level.

 Orchids Month Cultivation

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Terms Growing  Orchids Month

Orchids planted in suitable areas with elevations above 500 to 800 m above sea level. With temperatures around 180 C to 260 C. Light required is between 1000 to 1500 fc. Or by using the sun shines approximately 20% to 30% with around rate between 60% to 75%. These things (shine. air temperature, and humidity) is a requirement to grow orchids. That is, is the most important factor that determines and growth and flowering of orchids this month.

Planting spot

How to grow orchids in pots and can be use also others. That can use wood or bamboo with the help of wire. The goal, of course, that orchids are not collapsed. Pots used should made of soil or pottery, plastic, or a wooden box.

Planting

Here is how to grow orchids month.

1. Orchid seeds are already one year old, with the characteristics of the leaves have reached 1cm, 2-3 strands have emerged roots can be removed from its place (usually orchid seeds stored in the bottle). To prevent damage, the time issued orchid, could use a wire that has been bent at the edges.
2. Plants that have been issued, planted back into the pot which is made of plastic.
3. After three months, move the plants into pots measuring approximately 8 cm to 10 meters. Pots that can carry three to five plants. Then enter as much fungicide solution 2ml / l and organic fertilizer mix 2 ml / i.
4. After three months, do to the pot or transfer of plants into a pot that is larger than before. Could use a pot size 18 cm. Each pot planted one plant alone.
5. Every 6 months or three medium was replaced with a new one.

Maintenance

Orchid plant maintenance includes fertilizing, watering, and the treatment or prevention of plant pests. In order orchid plants can flourish with satisfactory results should pay attention to temperature, light, and humidity environments.

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Exposure

How to grow orchids need light in order to produce optimum perfect shape. With the number, leaf formation, color, and height adequate results can be managed with a high light conditions. Although it should avoid direct sunlight. Each type of orchid requires a different light depending on the orchid genus, which is as follows.

1. Types of orchids that require moderate light is Bulbophyllum.
2. Types of orchids that require moderate to bright light is Cattleya, Dendrobium, Oncidium.
3. Types of orchids that require moderate to bright light once was Vanda.
4. Types of orchids that need light to bright shade is Phalaenopsis and Paphiopedilum.
5. Types of orchids require bright light once is Cymbidium.

Nutrition and fertilization

How to grow orchids month should be coupled with the provision of nutrients and fertilizers. Orchid plants need 16 elements, the three of them got out of the air, water, namely: oxygen, carbon, and other elements of thirteen. The six elements required by the plant is a large amount of nitrogen, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and sulfur. Elements are derived from the growing media and fertilizer. The thing to watch is a mixture of fertilizer to be used. Orchid fertilizer mixture consisting of macro elements, has been prepared by the Post in 1952, is as follows.

1. Dose of potassium nitrate 100g
2. Magnesium Sulfate dose 100g
3. Monobosic potassium phosphate 100g
4. Ammonium Sulfate dose 100g
5. Ferry Phosphate 25g dose

How to do the mixing fertilizer is to dissolve all the ingredients mentioned above. Put into a container that is filled with water as much as one liter. Fertilizer application can be done once a week. Based on advice from the researchers orchids, can compound fertilizer. In the orchid fertilizer is recommended containing 10% sodium, 4% phosphorus, 6% potassium, 15% sulfur, and 7% calcium. It is no less important in the way the moon is growing orchid watering.

Sprinkling
Needs watering is a very critical part. Water plants need depends on the type, size, media type, type of pot used, temperature, humidity and wind speed. Giving too much water can cause loss of orchids, especially those grown in humid areas. Cause of failure orchid plant is located on the factors giving too much water. Way of watering orchids should use a spray nozzle. So that water droplets could be regulated and not washed or damage the stem of the flower.

How to control pest and disease species ?

Many pests that usually attack orchids, namely mites or scale insects, grasshoppers, thrips, ants, beetles, fleas pigs, snails, red spinder, fleas hood, leaf worms, and ladybugs. Moon orchid plants can be affected by the disease, the disease Buluk, damping-off, brown spots, dark spots, rotten at the root, wilt, rot, soft rot, brown spots, blotches ringed, cymbidium, and black rot.

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Harvest and postharvest

Furthermore, it should also consider the factors that affect the quality of the post-harvest period cut orchid flowers. Namely, age or aging interest rate, temperature, watering and nutrition or food, ethylene, and mechanical damage caused by the disease as well. While the factors that affect orchids grown in pots are cultivars, growth, amount of light, medium, fertilizer, temperature, and long-or transport.On potted orchid plants, flowers generally bloom in trouble to transport. This happens because orchids are more sensitive to ethylene which causes more prone to damage. This is compared with orchid plants are transported in stadium which are still in a state flower buds. Or flowers are blooming still in the low prestige.

Quality and is distinctive in appearance orchids. So, to produce this plant perfectly. Then it should really pay attention to the stages or how to grow orchids month. Of course, the way as already described above. Besides having a beautiful shape, moon orchid plants have a high selling price. You are interested to cultivate them ? Good luck.